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Apr 21 / 3:20am

Government requests directed to Google and YouTube

Government requests directed to Google and YouTube

Like other technology and communications companies, we regularly receive requests from government agencies around the world to remove content from our services, or provide information about users of our services and products. The map shows the number of requests that we received between July 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009, with certain limitations.

We know these numbers are imperfect and may not provide a complete picture of these government requests. For example, a single request may ask for the removal of more than one URL or for the disclosure of information for multiple users. See the FAQ for more information.

We’re new at this, and we’re still learning the best way to collect and present this information. We’ll continue to improve this tool and fine-tune the types of data we display.

via google.com

The UK is there with 59 removal requests for the last 6 months of 2009. But Germany has 188, and Brazil 291 at the top of the charts.

Brazil also leads the data requests, even more than the US. What's with Brazil?

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Filed under  //  censorship   google   visualisation  

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Apr 9 / 5:57am

GeoMaker - Convert web sites and texts into Maps and Geo Microformats

GeoMaker creates microformats and maps from geographical information embedded in texts. You can either provide a URL to load and hit the "load content" button or start typing your own text and hit the "get locations" button to continue.
via icant.co.uk

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Feb 12 / 3:50am

My Youtube Speed Shame

via youtube.com

Google have released a speed checker in terms of youtube speeds, and compared your ISP against major locations, your country and global speed.

The good news is I don't take much of a hit at weekends, unlike my fellow viewers in London. The bad news is that my speed is lower than the global average.

My ISP, out of interest, is Eclipse.

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Feb 10 / 6:32am

Angry Norwegians in scuba gear chase after Google Street View car Boing Boing

via boingboing.net

As a commenter says, best streetview prank yet!

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Feb 2 / 3:47am

What problems does Google Wave solve?

via danieltenner.com

Excellent article by Daniel Tenner about what on Earth Google Wave is for, in which he makes a compelling case that it is indeed for something, but not the something the early adopters may be interested in - essentially it's for corporate communications and collaborations.

But I still think it's going to be a long time yet.

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Jan 27 / 8:25am

Web Seer

Google Suggest Squared with Web Seer, which lets you compare the suggestions from Google for two different search terms.

For example, "is my cat" versus "is my hamster":

I'm not sure what to make of this, except perhaps that all hamsters lead to death, under the sign of cats.
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